36Synonyms found for separate

Word Origin & History

separate late 14c., from L. separatus, pp. of separare "to pull apart," from se- "apart" (see secret) + parare "make ready, prepare" (see pare). Sever (q.v.) is a doublet, via French. The adj. meaning "detached, kept apart" is first recorded c.1600, from the pp. used as an adjective. Separate but equal in ref. to U.S. segregation policies on railroads is attested from 1890. Separate development, official name of apartheid in South Africa, is from 1955.

Example Sentences for separate

Thus he proposed to unite the separate phenomena of body, man, and the state.

Each episode was an independent dramatisation of a separate science fiction short story.

A separate criminology & investigative sciences major was later added.

These different dispensations are not separate ways of salvation.

The hard and the palatalized consonants are considered separate phonemes in bulgarian.

The list of dvergar seems to divide into three separate interpolations.

A shop would typically have separate plugboards for each task a machine was used for.

Concrescence is the fusion of two separate teeth only in their cementum.

Apraxia of speech, which is now considered a separate disorder in itself.

The seeds then separate from the stems easily for storage in an airtight container.